Today in history: Chinese government seeks couple hiding out at embassy

Today in history: On June 11, 1989, a warrant issued for the arrest of Fang Lizhi, a dissident who had taken refuge at the U.S. embassy in Beijing after the Tiananmen Square massacre seven days earlier. The U.S. refuses to hand him and his wife, Li Shuxian, over to Chinese authorities. The couple are charged with “committing crimes of counter-revolutionary propaganda and instigation. A year later, they were given passage out of China.